Special screening of Jean-Luc Godard’s groundbreaking first feature, Breathless, Wednesday, March 11 at 7pm.

It was 60 years ago when Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the scene with his first feature film, À bout de souffle (Breathless, 1960). Godard was following fast in his friends’ footsteps (his fellow Cahiers critics Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut released their first films: Le Beau Serge and Les quatre cents coups, respectively, the previous year, as did Alain Resnais, with Hiroshima mon amour). The release of Godard’s first feature film was a defining moment in the history of cinema, and it proved that the French New Wave would change everything forever (and now, sixty years later, filmmaker Benedict Andrews celebrates the star of Breathless, the American actress Jean Seberg in his film Seberg, starring Kristen Stewart in the titular role). Seberg stars as Patricia, an American in Paris hawking newspapers along the Champs-Élysées. She befriends a small time gangster named Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and the two of them have a brief but profound affair. But Michel’s fate is inevitable (as it must be for all small-time hoods in the movies–and Godard knows this better than anyone). The College of Charleston Student Film Club will screen Breathless this Wednesday, March 11, at 7pm in Maybank 100. A bientôt!